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Maggots are Scavengers because they cannot hunt their own food, therefore they have to live off of already dead animals.
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What are three types of scavengers?
some ex. are crows ravens maggots and raccons
What animal decomposes a dead lion?
Flys are the decomposers that eat on a dead cougar.
What are the young ones of Housefly called?
Baby houseflies are called maggots. When flies are born they become larva and then they become maggots. The maggot will then eventually become a fly.
What is the benthic zone home for?
mainly scavengers
What trophic level are scavengers?
Scavengers are on every trophic level
Can you list three scavengers and what they eat?
Maggots Racoons Vultures etc. :)
What are three types of scavengers?
some ex. are crows ravens maggots and raccons
Which animals eat tiger?
The tiger is a top predator when it is alive, when it is dead a lot of bugs, vultures, scavengers and maggots feed off it.
Animals that are decomposers?
Most decomposers are insects. Flies, maggots, beetles, ants and roaches are forms of insect decomposers. Other decomposers known as scavengers are vultures, hyenas, and possums.
What eat a tyrannosaurus?
anything not too afraid to approach it after it died a natural death. the equivalent of small scavengers, crows, vultures, maggots, etc....
What kind of decomposer are maggot?
Maggots are known to be decomposers. When scavengers have had their fill of an animal or item, the decomposers then move in to begin doing their work of breaking them down.
Flies can arise from rotting meat?
Well, it is one place from where new flies do arise. Flies are scavengers and carrion eaters. The short form of the life cycle is this: critter dies, lady fly lands on dead critter and lays eggs, larva in the form of maggots emerge from the eggs, maggots eat, grow, and develop into new flies and rise off the remains of dead critter. Incidentally, maggots only eat dead or rotting meat. Maggots cannot eat live flesh.
Are maggots unicellular?
Are maggots unicellular?
What is the habitat of maggots?
Some maggots such as housefly maggots prefer decomposing meat or flesh. Although some maggots live in decomposing logs or trees. These are just a few places where maggots live.
Do maggots come from mold?
No , maggots are from flies
Do maggots lay eggs?
Err no. Maggots are the beginning stage of flies. Flies lay the eggs, which then hatch into larve that later become Maggots.
What is a sentence using the word necrophagous?
The danger of contracting a fatal brain disease did not stem the necrophagous rituals of some cannibalistic tribes. Vultures are the most familiar of necrophagous scavengers. Larval insects such as maggots are a necrophagous part of the food chain.
